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Millions of years ago, ancient retroviruses infected some of the world’s earliest organisms. Now, the remnants of their genome in modern organism's DNA helps to shape the process of embryonic development.

Genetic analysis from bone fragments conclusively shows that Neanderthals and humans coexisted for several thousand years in Northern Europe 45,000 years ago.

Researchers have successfully coaxed a deadly pathogen to destroy itself from the inside out. In the new study, researchers modified DNA from a bacteriophage or “phage,” a type of virus that infects and replicates inside of bacteria.

Reversible switch permits infection-fighting blood cells to change course to become long-lived memory cells instead of short-lived killer cells.

CRISPR-edited tomatoes have been developed that consume less water without compromising yield, quality or taste.

A new study may change the way clinicians and scientists understand, diagnose and treat placenta accreta spectrum disorder, a serious condition in which the placenta fails to separate from the uterus at birth.

The composition of the gut microbiome can influence how susceptible mice are to respiratory virus infections and how severe infection is.

Researchers found that, before the immune system evolutionarily co-opted it, a protein originally belonged to a gene family responsible for directing cells to move to the right location at the right time to address specific functional needs.

Researchers have discovered that a brain area preserved through evolution, called the superior colliculus, is more crucial for vision than we thought.

Data gathered using software developed by Johns Hopkins University computer scientists will have 'huge implications' for understanding human health and evolution